The U.S. ordered the departure of some diplomats and their families from Saudi Arabia due to the threat from Houthi militants, after the Iran-backed group carried out deadly strikes from Yemen.

Saudi Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran was evacuated on Thursday following an alarm whose trigger remained unknown, according to people familiar with ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida won’t get the next SpaceX Starship launch, but with the first of three launch towers on the Space Coast near completion, Elon Musk expects the company to build up the launch rate quickly.

“We expect Starship to fly weekly at some point in the first half of next year, and then second half of next year twice weekly ...Read more

NEW YORK — When Medet Fidian spent $310,000 on one of New York City’s 68 horse carriage medallions in 2022, it was his second shot at the American dream. His first was driving a yellow cab after arriving here from Turkey in 1996.

“When you say ‘New York,’ the first thing that comes to your mind is Lady Liberty — and then a yellow ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A Korean War-era law enacted to ensure domestic firms could adequately supply the U.S. military has become a piggy bank of sorts for a range of industrial needs, including energy projects favored by the Trump administration and GOP lawmakers.

The money is coming from a $1 billion pot Republicans set aside for purchases using ...Read more

Five months after its founding, India’s Cockroach Janta Party, known as the CJP, has revealed what youth-led democratic movements can achieve – and how hard they are to sustain.

The movement was formed in May 2026 to protest the government’s cancellation of medical school entrance exams and after India’s Chief Justice Surya ...Read more

Two brothers from Brazil’s richest family have emerged as opponents of right-wing presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro ahead of Sunday’s closely fought runoff election.

João and Walter Moreira Salles — scions of the Itau Unibanco Holding SA fortune with a combined net worth of $17.6 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires ...Read more

The U.S. ordered some diplomats and their families to leave Saudi Arabia because of the threat from Houthi militants, as the Iran-backed group carried out more strikes from Yemen.

At least four people were killed by attacks on an Aramco oil site and an eastern airport on Wednesday.

The moves come as tensions escalate across the Middle East, ...Read more

Subtropical Storm Josephine continued to surge off the U.S. Atlantic coast while the National Hurricane Center kept its eye on another system.

As of the 5 a.m. NHC advisory, the Josephine was located about 195 miles south-southeast of Nantucket, Massachusetts and 475 miles south-southwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia moving northeast at 13 mph with ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — One of the most comprehensive studies of California's multibillion-dollar investment in early education programs offers evidence that the funding is paying off in academic achievement years later.

Children who enrolled in school under California's first transitional kindergarten programs, made possible by a 2010 law, scored 11 ...Read more

As the nation’s physician shortage worsens, some fear the Trump administration’s immigration policies will dissuade or prevent doctors who earned their medical degrees in foreign countries from practicing in the United States.

Among all U.S. doctors, an estimated one quarter were educated abroad. But they make up an even larger proportion ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A white SUV drives past fields of grapes and nut trees and pulls to a stop on the dirt shoulder across the highway from a strange tableau:

Thousands of burned tree trunks stacked neatly to the end of a country block, a mountain range of chipped wood piles rising behind them. Logs dangle like toothpicks from machines with ...Read more

DENVER — Supporters of Colorado’s Amendment 85 say it would simplify the state’s increasingly lengthy and complicated ballots by bringing future proposals’ readability down to an eighth-grade level.

“I think a lot of people right now are opening their ballot and seeing, ‘Oh man, this is a huge ballot, it’s really complicated,’ �...Read more

Bears are having a very bad year.

Across much of the United States, a warm winter and persistent drought have decimated the natural foods that black and brown bears rely on. With nearly every station at the buffet in short supply, the adaptable eaters are turning to human food.

From California to Connecticut, desperate bears have raided ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Republican Lisa Demuth has emphasized her bipartisan credentials during her campaign for governor and portrayed herself as a pragmatic conservative who is focused on affordability and rooting out fraud.

Demuth has an affable style and rarely — if ever — criticizes her political foes with insults or obscenities that have ...Read more

A request by Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney for the court to take a closer look at the holdout juror in her triple murder trial has been denied.

Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan has rejected defense attorney Kevin Reddington’s motions to preserve records and conduct a “limited inquiry into Juror Doe,” citing key ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland voters legalized recreational cannabis, strengthened abortion protections and required state lawmakers to live in the districts they represent. But approving those constitutional amendments did not settle every question about how they would work.

Lawmakers still had to establish rules for cannabis sales. Separate ...Read more

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier petitioned a court to stop the Florida Democratic Party from airing an ad talking about a leaked Hope Florida grand jury report, according to a newly public appellate filing.

His request to the court, which was denied, came on the same day that the Republican Party of Florida filed a separate lawsuit ...Read more

Subtropical Storm Josephine formed off the mid-Atlantic coast on Wednesday and is forecast to strengthen but move northeastward away from the United States, the National Hurricane Center said, and a second Atlantic disturbance is brewing.

As of the NHC’s 5 p.m. tropical outlook, Josephine was located 265 miles south of Nantucket, ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A former Nye County prosecutor defended Michele Fiore’s work on the bench, describing the suspended Pahrump justice of the peace as “outstanding” during a hearing before a judicial review panel Wednesday.

Jason Gunnell was the final witness in Fiore’s three-day hearing before the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline. ...Read more